Cover Letter

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Megha Bhattacharya

26 College Avenue East,

Tembusu Residential College,

#15-163 Singapore 138597

Phone: +65 98213727

Email: megha@nus.edu.sg

10^th September, 2011

Mr. XYZ ABC

HR Director, Lucasfilms Singapore,

The Signature #05-00,

51 Changi Business Park Central 2

Singapore 486066

Dear Mr. ABC,

Having heard so much about Lucasfilms and Productions, I was really eager to apply for the ‘Learn from the Master’ Internship programme for this summer. As a Year Two Computer Engineering student, I plan to take up graphic designing and animation as my field of specialization. Talking to some people who have worked under this Internship programme last summer, I have learnt a lot about the style of working in Lucasfilms. The creatively inspiring work environment of Lucasfilms along with the learning opportunities you provide are an important stepping stone for a beginner or an intern.  For a beginner like me, I think this is the best opportunity to grow as a graphic designer or animator. Also my persistent learning process and experimental approach to work will constructively add to your company’s innovation.  

I have learnt a lot from my summer internship at Codebox, which provides freelance work for American companies,  as an Online Marketing Intern, where my job scope taught me to imagine creative solutions to old problems, display artistic skills for E-campaigns, interact with different people and cultivate workplace professionalism between the culturally different teammates. Hence my artistic innovation can be of great use to Lucasfilms as a graphic designer.  

As a coordinator for various student run clubs like NUS Indian Dance, Sparkz-Talent Show of NUS, I have gained the skill of prioritizing tasks, organizing events and multitasking which is essential as a part of the requirement for this internship. As a part of NUS Stage, I learnt to understand various phases of any production – film, theatre or dance. Hence I value productions and will be an asset to the company in maintaining or managing productions.

Since I am currently working as an Events Executive for ASEANpreneur Singapore, I interact with people all around the ASEAN region through verbal and written means of communication enhancing my people’s skills, ability to interact with a wide spectrum of people, and communicate effectively.

It would give me great pleasure to tell you more about me if I were able to meet you sometime. I would love to provide a more detailed insight into what I can do for your company. I am hoping to hear from you soon. Feel free to contact me through any mode of communication – phone or email.

Yours truly,

Megha Bhattacharya

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Resolving Interpersonal Conflicts

As long as humans will live, communication will be alive. As long as communication lives, there are bound to be interpersonal conflicts. Resolving those very conflicts are a sign of a mature individual with sufficient amount of Emotional Quotient. This story is about such an interpersonal conflict where resolving the conflict is confusing as there isn't anything wrong or right about emotions ever.

Coming from the land, where arranged marriages are not uncommon, I have always tried to understand the amount of interpersonal conflicts it creates. The situation goes: A pretty South-Indian girl meets, falls in love and decides to marry a handsome North-Indian boy. One might think everything seems perfectly simple as the people involved in this very institution of marriage are agreeable to the proverbial pact of spending the coming seven lives with each other. But fortunately or unfortunately it is not that easy. Fortunately, because many in India die due to lack of drama in their lives, and stories pertaining to familial matters always interest Indians. Nevertheless, the simple love story comes to a standstill.

Now the issue is of the strict, conservative and geographically oppositely placed set of parents. The young couple in love is suddenly not allowed to get married to each other because their parents - the people who would hardly spend time with each other - have a problem with each other. And that very problem doesnt stay restricted to their minds, but are very well percolated into the minds of the young lovers turning their dream of holy matrimony to an absolutely obsolete idea. The reasoning parents use is the fact that too much diversity in the culture of the bride and the groom will create household conflicts and cause irrefutable marital problems leaving the idea of being together redundant. This way of thinking is understandable to a very large extent, but again the fact that two mature individuals have decided to be with each other after supposed thinking-over comes into the picture. Hence questioning their intent or maturity is not exactly called for.

This brings us to the question of resolving such a conflict. This is a very common dilemma and since this involves emotions, it is difficult to think of a generic answer. The choice to be made is about choosing family or the person you want to get married to. Is it morally right for the young lovers to disregard their parents who have brought them up and go ahead with the marriage or is it alright for them to forget about the love they shared because their parents always know the right thing?